IBM AIX and Virtual I/O Server OpenSSL Multiple Vulnerabilities

SA50097

CVE-2012-0884, CVE-2012-1165, CVE-2012-2110, CVE-2012-2131, CVE-2012-2333

02 Aug 2012

Highly Critical

Vendor Patch

From remote

DoS (Denial of Service)

This includes vulnerabilities ranging from excessive resource consumption (e.g. causing a system to use a lot of memory) to crashing an application or an entire system.

System access

This covers vulnerabilities where malicious people are able to gain system access and execute arbitrary code with the privileges of a local user.

Security Bypass

This covers vulnerabilities or security issues where malicious users or people can bypass certain security mechanisms of the application.

The actual impact varies significantly depending on the design and purpose of the affected application.

IBM has acknowledged multiple vulnerabilities in OpenSSL included in AIX and Virtual I/O Server, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions, cause a DoS (Denial of Service), and potentially compromise an application using the library.

For more information:
SA46958
SA48847
SA49116

Apply fixes (please see the vendor's advisory for details).

http://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/openssl_advisory4.asc